One Year After the Protests in Cuba

    For decades the genius of Brazilian editorial cartoonist Carlos LaTuff has brilliantly informed the world that there are two sides to the ageless U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba.

    This is Carlos LaTuff telling the world that the U. S. Embargo, which was started in 1962, is still a two-sided affair in July of 2022. In other words, he disagrees with the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media that seems to maintain that the Embargo is a one-sided event and therefore starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cubans on the island is still justified. In other words, Americans are told that all the good Cubans are already in the U. S. or trying to get there, while all the bad Cubans are still in Cuba and planning to stay there...come hell or HIGH water.

     Today -- July 11th, 2022 -- is the first anniversary of the July 11th-2021 anti-government protests in Cuba that many hoped and believed would finally doom Cuba's revolutionary rule.

    The U. S., of course, is awash today with massive headlines rehashing last year's protests in Cuba. Not surprisingly the Washington Post led the anti-Cuba diatribes today...the Washington Post that is owned by the ultra-rich Jeff Bezos, the step-son of the Cuban-born Miguel Bezos.

   Today on July 11, 2022 the mammoth Washington Post headline shown above heralded the anniversary of last year's Cuban protests with the reminder that a year later  "NOW THEY'RE FLEEING THE ISLAND."  For sure, throughout this year Cuban migrants are among the millions of exiles flooding across the USA's southern border with Mexico.

    In contrast to what the U. S. media reports daily about the ongoing conundrum known as U.S.-Cuba Relations, there are unreported opinions from untold millions of people who strongly believe that the prime problems inside Cuba and within the USA Cuban policies is because that a minority of U.S. Cubans dictate the self-serving policies regarding Cuba -- thus enriching already rich U. S. Cubans while hurting Cuban families in Cuba. Such unreported opinions are shared by people such as...Mexican President Lopez Obrador and Cuban President Diaz-Canel.

    In fact, perhaps the most egregiously unreported fact by the U. S. media about U.S.-Cuban Relations is that most Cuban-Americans strongly resent what many believe are genocidal U. S. policies targeting Cuban families on the island. Carlos Lazo is a beloved professor in Seattle who is devoting his life to preventing innocent women and children in Cuba from succumbing to such drastic U. S. policies as the six-decade-old Embargo-Blockade against the nearby island nation. Although his efforts are massive and also ubiquitously chronicled on Social Media platforms, the U. S. media doesn't want the American people to know about Carlos while they massively promote any and all Counter Revolutionary Cubans. Unreported by the U. S. media, Carlos rode his bicycle {followed by some of his students} the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump to end the Embargo against Cuba. Then Carlos {followed by some of his students} walked the 300 miles from Little Havana in Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to end to the Embargo against Cuba. NEEDLESS TO SAY, the U. S. media ignores people like Carlos Lazo while, of course, devoting countless pages and hours to anti-Cuban zealots.

     While neither the U. S. media nor Presidents Trump or Biden pay any attention to Carlos Lazo, his ferment pleas on behalf of innocent children and their families in Cuba are hourly heralded on Social Media and via his speeches and videos.

   Through his BRIDGES of LOVE foundation, Carlos Lazo frequently flies planeloads of food and medical supplies to Cuba...such as 5,000 cans of Tuna and other food on one recent flight and boxes of Pediatric Medicine and other necessities on another recent flight. The passionate belief that predicates the life of Carlos Lazo is this: "I sincerely believe that a few rich and powerful people in a superpower nation should not endlessly be allowed to benefit from starving and depriving innocent families that happen to live in a much smaller and vulnerable nation."

    Today -- on July 11, 2022 -- this photo was posted on Facebook and other Social Media platforms but you won't see it in the U. S. media that is too busy being saturated, as usual, with only anti-Cuban diatribes. But for the record, this is Carlos Lazo with some of his BRIDGES of LOVE boxes filled with Pediatric Medicine that will benefit children in Cuba, children in Cuba that he believes have been unfairly treated all their lives by the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of their island.

Is this a two-sided story or is it a one-sided story?

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